Fall is here, and it’s the time when staff in the Graduate College get to meet new faculty members at IIT. We are happy to be working with some of these new faculty on research proposals.

As always, we look forward to working with any and all of the IIT faculty whenever they want to submit proposals for extramural funding. Please do stop by the Main Building to ask how we can help you with your proposal-writing endeavors—or even if it’s just to say hello. We enjoy meeting the people we serve.

On behalf of Research Support Services, here’s wishing a wonderful Thanksgiving to all of you.

- Glenn Krell M.P.A., C.R.A.Editor, Research NewsDirector, Research Proposal Development

By Domenica Pappas, CRAAssociate Director, Office of Sponsored Research and Programs

With the increasing compliance requirements by various sponsors, Research News will be including articles from time to time regarding compliance issues.

It has been said that research cannot be done by theory alone. Sometimes human subjects or animal subjects are needed to provide a better model for a specific study. All research with humans or animals must meet federal guidelines. In order to meet these guidelines and perform research on these two groups, a protocol must be filed and subsequently reviewed by various review boards.

At IIT, the Institutional Review Board (IRB) is the committee charged with overseeing the protection of human subjects; the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is the committee charged with overseeing the protection of animals. You can find more information on our website: http://www.grad.iit.edu/research/osrp.html

If you should ever have any questions, please contact us at osrp@iit.edu, or at312-567-3035.

“Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Principal Investigator Program in Applied Mathematics, Collaboratory Research, Computer Science, and High-Performance Networks.”

What: The Early Career Principal Investigator Program is an initiative of DOE’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Program. The goal of this grant competition is to “identify exceptionally talented applied mathematicians, collaboratory researchers, computer scientists, and high-performance networks researchers early in their careers and facilitate the development of their research programs.”

Amount: Maximum support that can be requested is $100,000 per year for three years.

Eligibility: Applicants must meet the following criteria: 1) Be employed in a tenure-track position (or tenure-track-equivalent position) as an assistant professor or equivalent title; 2) Applicants must be conducting research in applied mathematics, collaboratories, computer science, or high-performance networks.

The National Institutes of Health has a National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD). NCMHD is seeking feedback on a recently published document, “The NIH Strategic Research Plan and Budget to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate Health Disparities, Fiscal Years 2002-2006.” The Strategic Plan focuses on three major goals: research; research infrastructure; and public information and community outreach.

NCMHD is interested on your comments on the Strategic Plan, which is available at http://www.ncmhd.nih.gov/ until January 5, 2004. Written comments should be sent to the Strategic Plan Review Group, NCMHD, 6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 800, Bethesda, MD 20892-5465 or may be transmitted electronically, via e-mail, to NIHHealthDisparitiesPlan@mail.nih.gov and should include contact information, such as name, organization, address, and telephone and fax numbers.